The Week in Tech: McAfee Meltdown, Twitter vs. Instagram, More

From John McAfee playing Butch Cassidy to Instagram vs. Twitter, here's what you missed this week.

Probably the oddest story of the past week has been McAfee founder John McAfee's rambles around Latin America, and, possibly, sanity.

McAfee is at least a person of interest the shooting of Gregory Faull, a 52-year-old American expatriate and McAfee's neighbor on the Belize island on which he lived. Although McAfee's role in the case remains uncertain, he clearly is paranoid about remaining in Belize police custody, fleeing to Guatemala and asking for political asylum.

McAfee's case is certainly less about the technology than about the man; McAfee sold his stake in the company in 1996, two years after he resigned as chief executive. Since then, McAfee has led his life in relative obscurity, until recent weeks.

One would think, in the weeks leading up to the holiday season, that the most prominent stories would be on holiday sales, or what the most popular toys of the holiday season will be. But there's been little of that this year. Instead, following the Black Friday/Thanksgiving weekend discount orgy, the Web's eyes have turned to (okay, unsurprisingly) T-Mobile's deal to get the iPhone next year. That's good news for the nation's fourth-largest carrier, although the real news may be the push toward the company's "Value" plans, where consumers will pay for the phone up front, or at least on a monthly basis that's clearly delineated.

And, in other Apple news, the Web roused itself over the news that at least some future iMacs would be manufactured within the U.S.A. If Tim Cook and Apple can't keep secrets of the new iPhone 5 from leaking out in Taiwan, how will it stop snaps of the new iMac from making it onto the Web? (Hey, how are iMac sales doing these days? Maybe Apple needs some free publicity...)

We've included the most popular stories of the week, the ones you need to know. Click on through for our takes on the Twitter/Instragram spat, a new Mars rover, and that Tumblr worm, among others.

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Twitter vs. Instagram

Twitter vs. Instagram

In some instances, Instagram photos posted to Twitter appear cropped on either side. Instagram took responsibility for the glitch, admitting that the bug showed up after it disabled its Twitter Cards integration.